Kam and I are finally remembering what sleep feels like. What a great feeling!! For the past 3 weeks now Kate has slept from 8pm-7am with no wake ups in the middle of the night!!!! We are taking advantage of this and getting in bed oursleves around 8:30 or 9. I really feel a sense of refreshment and wake up now saying "ahhhhhh...."
Funny how babies and sleep become an "issue". I spent many hours reading up on sleep books and seeking out counsel from friends but in the end I have discovered that none of these tips and expert advice are the know all and end all. Sure, they do help and I am grateful to my sweet friends who offered up any advice they could to me. I have discovered that learning to sleep is a process. Shoot, if someone layed me down every night and left me in a dark room with a fishtank music box on, I would have a hard time going to sleep as well! I think sleep is definitely a learning process as well as a part of maturation. And I see this in Kate in so many areas of her little life. She is standing on her own, crawling like a speed demon, shaking every object to hear its noise, pointing at things, and calling us by our names - All processes. None just came over night. We have watched her grow and change and become a little human over the past 11 months. I know this minute issue of sleep is definitley setting me up for bigger things in Kate's life that we will have to deal with as they come.
But for now, I am just so thankful for 10 hours of sleep at night!!!
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